Historians and literary critics both work with narratives, yet what they do with them is often quite different.

Join Professors Nico Slate (History, Carnegie Mellon) and Priya Joshi (English, Temple) in a public conversation about how they work across disciplines. Slate publishes on Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois in a recent book exploring the solidarities of color between the US and India; Joshi on Bollywood cinema as political culture in her recent book.

Participants explore how scholars in different humanities disciplines address the narratives of dissidence that shape public culture; how they curate archives that don't fully fit within disciplinary protocols; how historians and literary critics identify obscured circuits of exchange and encounters beyond the centers and peripheries of economic or political exchange.